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Arts & Entertainment

Film: The River Niger

1976, 105 mins.

In this adaptation of Joseph A. Walker's play, James Earl Jones plays a house painter and wannabe poet trying hard to care for his cancer-patient wife and family. Louis Gossett Jr. and Cicely Tyson co-star.

Part of the center's Friday-afternoon free film series.

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